Relational property between head and eye regions is the primary determinant of the efficiency in search for a deviant gaze

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1723-1737

  Doi, Hirokazu ^a   Ueda, Kazuhiro ^b   Shinohara, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Configural processing; Gaze direction perception; Relational property; Social cognition; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449558499     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802596825     Document Type: Article

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